WBEZ Weekly News Recap: November 12, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse (center) enters the courtroom after a break at the Kenosha County Courthouse on Thursday.  Rittenhouse is charged in the killings of two people and wounding of a third during a racial justice protest in Kenosha, Wis., last year.
Kyle Rittenhouse (center) enters the courtroom after a break at the Kenosha County Courthouse on Thursday. Rittenhouse is charged in the killings of two people and wounding of a third during a racial justice protest in Kenosha, Wis., last year. The Kenosha News via AP, Pool
Kyle Rittenhouse (center) enters the courtroom after a break at the Kenosha County Courthouse on Thursday.  Rittenhouse is charged in the killings of two people and wounding of a third during a racial justice protest in Kenosha, Wis., last year.
Kyle Rittenhouse (center) enters the courtroom after a break at the Kenosha County Courthouse on Thursday. Rittenhouse is charged in the killings of two people and wounding of a third during a racial justice protest in Kenosha, Wis., last year. The Kenosha News via AP, Pool

WBEZ Weekly News Recap: November 12, 2021

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Chicago cancels school to motivate parents to vaccinate as COVID cases rise. The Chicago Police Department cancels days off in anticipation of a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial.

Reset goes behind those headlines and more in the Weekly News Recap.

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Alex Nitkin, editor and City Hall Reporter for the Daily Line